ENGLISH VERB PATTERNS: ENJOY!

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Hello, everybody! This is Jack from tofluency.com and in this English lesson,
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we're going to look at verb patterns.
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More specifically, we'll look at the verb: enjoy because this is where I see a
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lot of mistakes made.
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For example, it's very common for me to see someone saying this: I'm enjoy to do
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it. The correct way to say this
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and the verb pattern we want to use is the following:
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I enjoy doing it.
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So, when we use enjoy, we use the verb to be and then after we say I enjoy or you
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enjoy.
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We use the gerund: doing -
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I enjoy doing it.
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The pattern stays the same no matter which tense we use. So, we can say I enjoy
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doing it -
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I enjoyed doing it - I've enjoyed doing yet - and i'm going to enjoy doing it.
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So, we still use doing, the gerund, after enjoy in any tense. Here is another
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example: I'm going to enjoy spending time with my family.
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I'm going to enjoy spending time with my family.
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Everyone enjoys singing karaoke, right? Now, here is an example using enjoy with
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a noun:
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he's not enjoying this movie.
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He's not enjoying this movie.
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To learn more about their patterns, then watch this video.
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There will be a link in the description and maybe the comments section and it's
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going to tell you how to learn
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verb patterns and give you an introduction to the infinitive versus
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the gerund.
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So, check that out and thank you for watching!
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